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The Human Trouble According to James Baldwin

November 15, 2020 By gmoke Leave a Comment

"Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civil-rights, human condition, James Baldwin, racism, sectarianism

Republicans Are Still Harming Children #AbolishICE

July 21, 2019 By joeltpatterson 15 Comments

As President Trump goads crowds of white people toward hateful racist chants, our taxes are still paying to harm children and families who seek asylum in America. The journalist Aura Bogado, of Reveal News, points out that new facilities … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: AbolishICE, asylum, corruption, immigration, migrants, racism

No Place for Jackie Robinson or Sam Jethroe

September 29, 2017 By Pablo 13 Comments

On April 16, 1945, Jackie Robinson was among three Negro League stars who "tried out" for the Red Sox at Fenway Park. We don't know for sure if it was Tom Yawkey, or someone else in the front office, or anyone at all yelled the disgusting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: racism, red-sox

Howie Carr Remains Super Duper Racist

September 30, 2016 By thegreenmiles 25 Comments

Media Matters has tracked Howie Carr's racism towards immigrants, Muslims and Native Americans, Now he's attacking President Obama for being black: HOWIE CARR (HOST): That’s the worst thing about this administration. They’ve taken -- it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: howie-carr, media, racism

More Proof Tom “Black Labs Matter” Stevens is Racist

October 9, 2015 By thegreenmiles 2 Comments

For a guy who so vehemently claims to be not racist, Tom Stevens sure does have a racist Facebook page. First, the story from Steve Annear in today's Boston Globe: A barber in Norton is being criticized by some people for posting the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: black lives matter, norton, racism, Tom Stevens

Reply to the Carolina Terrorist: Message Received, Message Rejected. Now the Work Begins..Again.

June 22, 2015 By andytarsy Leave a Comment

Posting something here that I first posted on LinkedIn because I want to keep this conversation going. There are broad truths behind what on its face is obviously an abhorrent act by an individual. We need to talk about them. It is well … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Charleston, Confederate Flag, massachusetts, privilege, Racial Violence, racism

Boston Police Have a Racially Biased Policing Problem, and a Golden Opportunity to Reform

October 9, 2014 By ACLUm blog 6 Comments

During the summer of 2011, then-19-year-old Ivan Richiez was robbed at gunpoint and pistol-whipped by two men in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. Bruised and bloodied, Ivan walked home passed the local Boston Police Department … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-police, boston-police-department, police, police-brutality, racial-justice, racial-profiling, racism, stop-and-frisk

Boston Herald Trolls With Racist Obama Cartoon

October 1, 2014 By thegreenmiles 36 Comments

The Boston Herald, the voice of old-school Boston racists, is in the national spotlight today for this overtly racist cartoon about President Obama and Secret Service breaches. The cartoonist is defending himself by claiming that, much like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-herald, media, racism

GOP’s Race War Still Dividing the Working Class

December 5, 2013 By thegreenmiles Leave a Comment

From Richard Nixon's efforts to divide poor whites & blacks to Ronald Reagan's open "Cadillac welfare queens" race-baiting to the Romney/Ryan 47% and makers/takers, using race to divide working-class whites from working-class blacks has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: new-bedford, poverty, race, racism

‘Obamaphone’ attack ads flood Facebook

October 11, 2012 By dracutfire 2 Comments

Since October 10, 2012, a viral anti-Obama facebook post has been going around. It reads: Woman Admits to Having 30 Free Obamaphones Paid By the Taxpayers http://www.reagancoalition.com She carries six of them in her … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012, cell-phone, debate, election, obama, obamaphone, racism

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Look, people confused Charlie Baker "not being Donald Trump" with "trustworthy verging on infallible."

Well gosh that was never true, to say the least. #StockholmSyndrome

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“Utter breakdown ... *it’s just not okay*” [emphasis original]

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Earlier, I spoke at the #MACOVIDOversight hearing and voiced my concerns & the concerns of my colleagues and constituents. I then asked @MassGovernor what I believe was a straightforward question...and received a not-so-straightforward response.

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In 2014, I was a clerk for the ME legislature's enviro committee and I'm flabbergasted by the arguments by progressive Reps (many of whom I respect) against making committee votes and testimony public. /1 #mapoli @act_on_mass @byChrisVan @statehousenews
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What conditions accounts for this?

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